The Penn's Grove record., 1887-08-06

central Union IelepiOn6 company III
Chicago, was arrested on the 18th on
the charge of forgery and committed
under $25. 900 bonds. He is SAID to
have forged two checks for $50, 900
each en- the Northwestern National
Bank and to have stolen nearly $780,
600 from the company.
The flood at Augusta, Georgia, is
recedlng from the main streets, except
Upper Green street, where there is a
break in one of the levels of the canal.
More than three-fourths of the city
was covered with water from one to
six feet deep. The business section
was net flooded at all. The principal
damage done is to streets and sewers,
The inundated portions of the city
were navigatel on the 31st ult. by
boats, ferries beng established at
street corners.
The heaviest rain known by the
"oldest inhabitants" of Wheeling
West Virginia, fell there on the after
noon of the 1st, the fall being over two
inches in three-Quarters Of an hour.
Many cellars and some first floors were
flooded. There was vivid lightning.
The temperature. which had been so in
the shade, was reduced to 81 by the
storm.
1t is reported from Hardin county,
illinois, that the Ku-klux gang there
re preparing for another raid on their
elbow citizens. Since the ASSASSINATION
of James Belt, County Judge James
Hess, Logan Belts wife and a number
of others, have received written no.
tees to leave the county. The people
throughout the county are terrified,
and many are leaving without receiv-
ing the invitation extended to so many.
The gang is beginning to warn people
of other counties to get out of Southern
Illinois. Eight others who have re-
celved these notices have been waylald
and killed. A meeting of the citizens
of the county has been called to devise
means to ferret out the murderous
mysteries. While four hunters from
Arkansas were camped on a stream in
the Indian Territory, they were sur
prised on the 29tb uit., by three armed
men. who ordered them to surrender.
Two OF The hunters sprang into a
OllIhCb anu tIC OIilCt LWOs udllEu
johnson and Peters, refused to
surrender without knowing why.
The reply was a volley from
the intruders' reyolvers, and both hum
tiers fell MORALLY wounded, while their
escaped. 1t is supposed the
attacking party mistook their victims
for persons against whom they had a
grudge. George Ubetstein, aged ~
years, on the 1st, shot and MORALLY
wounded his wife, aged 30 years, and
then committed suicide, IN Bridgeport,
Connecticut. She left him several
months ago, and refused to go back
and live with him. Rev. Thomas Alb
bolt West ran away from Chesterton,
Indiana. some time ago with II girl
named Susie Beck, whom he, a married
man, betrayed. The couple went to
st. Louis, and he there caused her
death by giving her arsenic wEiie liv-
withr+sz~uuder All assumed name,
is great excit ment in Chester
ton, and the citizens are organizing
search parties on a large scale to hunt
for West.
The barn of Elias Reist, in Penn
Lancaster county, Penna.,
was consumed by lightning on the
evening OF the Both ult. All its con-
tents, including several animals, were
destroyed. Loss 5000. Mrs. Abram
Witmar while looking at the fire, drop
ped dead from excitement. The barn
Of Henry Haller, at Rethville, was also
destroyed, and the Port Deposit Rail
road bridge at Octorara WIS washed
away. The barns of Aaron Yeager in
Pike Township, Berks county, and
Wonsitter, near Hoppenville,
Montgomery county, Penna., were con-
'umed by lightning on the evening of
the 3lst ult. Loss $4,000. Grim Is
lam, covering two acres. hear Boyer
Iown, burst through its breast, eigh-
teen feet hight. on the morning of the
LIST, and the torrent destroyed every
In its path. at South Norwalk,
on the 31st ult., lightning
wrecked a dwelling, killed a young
on the road, and made a man
IN a tolt on the river totally
blind. A young woman named Shee-
han, Is years of age. was killed by
lightning while standing in a yard dur
ing a storm at Yates Centre. Kansas,
On the evening of the 3lst ult. During
4 thunder storm at Hadensville, Ken
lucky, OH the afternoon of the 29th
nit, three coiored perSons-Solomon
Snowden, Moses Watkins and Alice
shelter from a thunder
under a tree, and all were killed
by lightning. a telegram from Easton
says that about twenty houses in
Northampton county, Penna., and
in Warren county, New Jersey,
we're damaged by lightning On the 3lst
Many cellars Ia Easton were
Hooded, and the damage to streets and
yements by washouts is estimated at
Sl2, 001.
The public debt statement for
July, issued on the LIST shows a reduc-
lion Of 81 .S44 ,S94. Total cash in the
Treasury, S456, 304, 36l.